Embossed wall-paper and process of making same.



PATENTED AUG. 23, 1904.

A. LEISEL. EMBOSSED WALL PAPER AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 20, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented August 23, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATE T- OFFICE.

ALBERT LEISEL, OF PEEK SKILL, NEW YORK.

'EMBOSSEDWALL-PAPER AND PROCESS OF MAKINGSAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,055, dated August 23, 1904. I Application filed. June 20, 1903. Serial No. 162,346. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT LEISEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in Peekskill,

ing them to the wall and present thereby difii- I 'culty in matching the patterns, so that sometimes an unsightly appearance is produced.

Another disadvantage is that the raised designs are impaired by the influence of the.

moisture of the paste and do not present their original appearance after being hung to the wall.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved embossed wall-covering in which the objections stated are entirely obviated. An accurate matching of the pattern and a fine ornamental appearance is obtained after being hung to the wall; and for this purpose the invention consists of an embossed wallcovering which is united by heat and pressure with a backing of paper or other fabric coated with a waterproof adhesive substance.

The invention consists, further, of the proc-' ess of making embossed wall-coverings by embossing the front layer in the usual manner and then backing the same with a layer coated with an adhesive substance while subvertical transverse section on line 3 3, Fig. 1,-

drawn on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, a represents the front layer of my improved embossed wallcovering. This layer is either of ordinary wall-paper, flock-covered paper, silk, velvet,

oil-cloth, or any other wall-covering and is pressed in embossed relief in the usual manner between two heated plates, the lower one or counter-die of which has a pattern in relief, while the upper one has the same pattern in intaglio. The front layer a is then united with a backing b, of paper or other suitable material, which is covered with a coating 0 of shellac or other waterproof adhesive substance. The face layer and backing are then subjected again to the heat and pressure of a second pair of plates, the lower one or counter-die having the higher reliefs ground off,

so that only the lower portions in relief,re

the front layer and backing are firmly united and a wallcovering with an approximately smooth rear surface is obtained, while at the same time the embossed design is preserved in'its original beauty and appearance in the front layer. By the second pressure to which the frontlayer and backing are subjected the surface is greatly facilitated without change or injury to the front layer. Wall-coverings provided with such a backing and an intermediatelayer of waterproof adhesive can be readily coated with the paste and hung to the wall without impairing the shape and appearance, of the embossed design, for the reason that the intermediate layer of adhesive substance acts as a protection for the face layer, so that the same will preserve its original. condition without shrinking or warping.

It. will also facilitate the matching of the design on the wall, so that a more attractive and artistic wall-covering is obtained.

My improved process of making wall-coverings may also be applied to embossed signs and other devices of various kinds in which the waterproof backing. produces the same advantagesnamely, the preservation of the embossed design of the front layer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As a new article of manufacture, an embossed wall-covering, consisting of an embossed front layer, and a slightly-embossed backing-sheet intimately united by the portions not in relief with the portions of the front layer not in relief by an interposed adhesive substance, substantially as set forth.

' 2. Theherein-described process of making embossed wall coverings, which consists in applying to an embossed front layer a slightlyembossed backing by an interposed adhesive substance, then subjecting said layers to pressure between a die-plate having the embossed portions of the front layer in intaglio and a seconddie-plate having slightly-raised portious corresponding to the intaglio portions so as tofirmly unite the portions not in relief of front layer and backing, substantially as set forth.

3. The process herein described of making embossed wall-coverings, which consists in first embossing the front layer between heated plates, then subjecting the front layer and a backing coated on its side adjacent to the front layer with a waterproof adhesive substance to the pressure of an embossed plate and a counter-die embossed slightly in conformity with the design of the embossingplate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT LEISEL.

Witnesses:

PAUL GonrnL, HENRY J. SUIIRBIER. 

